Today's lesson: DIRTY DANCING is about the 2012 election. Seriously...
Today's lesson: DIRTY DANCING is about the 2012 election.
Seriously.
Baby is an altruistic upper-middle class teenage 1-percenter who wants to join the Kennedy's Peace corps and save the world because when the rich in America do well they want to give back to help those less fortunate, in theory.
Johnny is the blue collar laborer from the 99% consumed with working to get out of his class trap and learns how to be selfless from his love with Baby.
Baby is the hero of the film and represents all that is good about America.
So naturally when someone is in trouble regarding their FEMALE REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS & HEALTH ISSUES Baby does everything she can to help.
Then when Baby confronts Robbie (the pictured asshole upper class waiter/med school student and clearly portrayed as a bad person) with the fact he knocked up Penny he dismisses her saying:
"Some people count and some people don't."
THEN Robbie pulls a copy of THE FOUNTAINHEAD by AYN RAND from his pocket and hands it to Baby telling her:
"Be careful with that, I've made notes in the margin." (really)
Paul Ryan's, I mean Robbie's complete disregard for his responsibilities to society is supposed to teach us something there.
It is the core lesson of the film paralleling the same one being learned by Baby's Dad who also views people through a class prism first.
Paul, I mean Robbie (Sorry but they even look alike) pays for his transgressions at the end and then everyone gets up and dances at the thought that he will not become a doctor.
The film and Baby's lesson: "Put Ayn Rand in a corner."
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